Sunday and Monday

We got a good start on Sunday, painting exterior trim, and Mom painting the sashes of some of the new windows in the kitchen, but it started to sprinkle rain, as it did every day I was there. Below, Dad is glazing the bathroom transom and Mom is painting the sashes in Carriage Green. All of the sashes and the front and kitchen porch doors will be this color and all other exterior trim will be white.

The seam-filler was behind schedule because it has been so damp on the Island for so long, and the plaster doesn't dry as quickly as it should. I was hoping he would be finished before I got there so I could start painting the interior, but he couldn't finish until the day after I left. We would set up the beds and frames at night and take them apart in the morning and stack them so they wouldn't be in his way as he worked. Below is my bed in the Living Room.

When the weather cooperated Dad did some glazing outside. Dad is working on the George Lowe window. He was the guy who bought the house from the railroad and added the kitchen plus the pantry and 2 porches that we demolished last year. His signature is in the window that Dad is working on and it will go back where it originally was, and will be above the kitchen sink.

Monday morning, Mom, Dad and I headed out at 8am to let the seam-filler work, and we headed to Morell to see the kitchen cabinets. Below, you can see the finish color on the sashes of the bathroom window.

The cabinet maker is Joe Dunphy. I called before we went up and he put the components together for us to see. The doors aren't on yet and the drawers aren't in but you can see how they will look. He set the drop-front sink into the cabs so we can see what it will look like. There will be no upper cabinets for now. I hope to do some antique hunting and try to find a glass doored upper cabinet for the kitchen, or else get Kerras Jeffery to eventually build me one. These cabinets will be painted a bluish green color, and the wainscot and chair rail in the kitchen will match. The hardwood flooring has to be installed in the kitchen before these can be delivered.

 The sink

 

 

I bought the hardware and sent it to Carter, and he delivered it to Joe a while back. We had a look at it against the cabinets. They have a weathered brass finish.

We then went to Loyalist Marble and Tile in Winsloe and got some tile samples for the basement bathroom. I forgot to take pictures of that, but I'm going to do the walls with white subway tiles with a carrara marble chair rial to match the marble of the vanity. We also found a blue-grey slate colored floor tile that will be in the bathroom and at the front door in the Living Room. Then we went to Gahan House in Charlottetown for lunch. I have to go there every time I'm on the Island for their fish and chips in a paper bag. Best ever.

The Gahan House is right next to St. Dunstan's Basilica. I can't help taking pictures of it when I'm there. They did a fantastic job cleaning the stone. The stone of the church used to be black.

We went to Burke Electric on Queen Street to look at light fixtures, and Home Depot as well and found a lot of things we will eventually need, so it was a very successful trip. Then when we got back to the house I took these following pictures. Below are the finished windows on the west side of the bathroom addition.

Below is the window to Mom and Dad's bedroom

Back hall window at left, with freshly painted sashes

Many of these trees will have to be removed

The plumber and seam-filler were hard at work when we got back to then house.

 

 

 

Basement bathroom, where the white tile will be

Mom and Dad's things had to remain boxed up in the mechanical room until some painting is complete and the floors are down upstairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The extra mattresses are now stacked on the second floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Living Room

 Dining Room

 Butler's Pantry

Kitchen

 Kitchen Porch

 

I got the new porch door primed and the first coat of green on

 

 

More of the Kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

Back Hall

 

 

 

 

Bathroom

 

 

 

Basement

The second toilet was installed. Now we have a 2 holer

Dad stripped just about all of the paint off the 2nd floor stairs, and it was quite a job, but the door is beautiful. We'll get it cleaned up a little more and just put a preservative on it.

That evening Lois, Sandy and Arthur came by for a nice visit and say good-bye before I left the next day.

One more day of photos of my trip to come